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A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...
The incredibly rare type of surgery has been performed fewer than 80 times in the last two decades in the country. Cestoni ...
A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...
Dr. Seung Duk Lee, interim surgical director of liver transplant, performed the nation’s first fully robotic living donor ...
The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...
An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for ... and has been able to live longer than anyone with a gene-edited pig organ. Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April.
Though the couple was concerned about the potential risks that could come with surgery, Raquel decided ... for a larger portion of the national kidney transplant list. Aaron and Raquel hope ...
In a first-of-its-kind surgery for Long Island, the Northwell Health Transplant Institute performed a successful three-organ ...
Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...
The incredibly rare type of surgery has been performed fewer than 80 times in the last two decades in the country. Cestoni ...
His doctors at the Northwell Transplant Institute call ... first the heart, then the liver and then the kidney over 14 hours of surgery. "A complex endeavor for a hospital to carry out it's ...